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Amazon CloudWatch vs Azure Cost Management comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th), Log Management (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)
Azure Cost Management
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon CloudWatch is designed for Cloud Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 4.6%, down 5.9% compared to last year.
Azure Cost Management, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Cost Management, holds 12.2% mindshare, down 15.6% since last year.
Cloud Monitoring Software
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Rasanpreet Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 25, 2023
Reliable AWS monitoring and logging
The choice of logging solution should always be determined by the specific business requirements. It is crucial to align the logging strategy with what type of logs are needed and how they should be used. There are instances where we require custom solutions to retrieve logs, especially application logs that may not be easily accessible through CloudWatch or similar services. When we heavily rely on AWS native services, CloudWatch is indeed a robust choice. However, in certain scenarios, we might need integration capabilities with other tools, and if they can incorporate such features, it would enhance overall logging capabilities. I would rate it eight out of ten.
Sami Esber - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 27, 2023
Based on highly scalable and available infrastructure, it helps set limits and control costs
Cost Management is used to control your bills by setting limits. Sometimes, there are some offers from Microsoft for better pricing when we utilize the solution on log files, such as if we are making some reservation to reserve resources for a long time Cost management is the console's most…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's a very simple logging system."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"What I like the most about Azure Cost Management is that it's similar to a native service, and it has very well-defined product features, particularly if a customer is moving to Azure, then it gives proper insight in terms of compatibility and what benefits a customer can get from the solution."
"The most valuable features of Azure Cost Management are the ability to set standards or tagging policies and initiatives. You can achieve higher cost optimization."
"The tool is very stable."
"The resource forecasting feature is invaluable. Secondly, the ability to drill down to the regional and resource level is incredibly helpful for pinpointing where my costs are accruing."
"It has predictive analysis. It can forecast based on the costs associated with the particular architecture and how often they use it, estimating how much they'll spend."
"The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs."
"The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state."
"I like the fact that you can set alerts on the predicted cost in Azure Cost Management."
 

Cons

"Adding conditional expressions would enhance its functionality."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"It's not very intuitive. It doesn't have drag-and-drop functionality to trigger actions from notifications."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now."
"Azure Cost Management is expensive."
"It can be difficult to determine the cost associated with certain resources as it relies on a tagging progress. This means we need to drill down billing reports to highlight and fix missing tags."
"The tool's pricing should be made cheaper."
"There are certainly areas for improvement in terms of labeling the inventory. That's because right now, we use a number of services. But it's difficult when you look at the billing limiters and how they are named. We can't correlate those names to the actual services there. So, I can't click on an item and see if I'm still using this service or not. So it just rolls up and gives me values and figures, but I can't really correlate them to actual services on the Azure platform."
"The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management."
"It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."
"The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a free-of-charge service."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap solution."
"Amazon CloudWatch has very cheap pricing, and it hardly costs my company $25-$30 a month for fifty systems, so it's pretty affordable."
"The tool is not expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"What's were using is the free service of Amazon CloudWatch, so they're not charging us. As for hidden fees, we're not aware of them because we're using what our clients provided us."
"I consider it as a medium-priced solution."
"The product's cost is relatively inexpensive."
"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."
"You are charged based on how much you use the solution."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"The tool's pricing is yearly."
"We are using pay-as-you-go licenses mostly for our customers."
"Azure Cost Management comes as a part of other solutions. You need to pay as per your requirement based on the pay-as-you-go model."
"Azure Cost Management is a free solution. The cost is only for Azure cloud."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
5%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudWatch?
In general, Amazon CloudWatch is cheaper compared to Dynatrace. However, there are potential costs to be mindful of, like running a log query that returns trillions of bytes of data.
What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?
There is room for improvement in setting up custom metrics in CloudWatch. Adding conditional expressions would enhance its functionality.
What do you like most about Azure Cost Management?
Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segr...
 

Also Known As

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Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
 

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